Most people will conclude that “Domain join instead” and “Use a local account” have nothing to do with each other exactly as Microsoft intends because Microsoft has hidden account options behind words that most people do not associate with the process of creating a local account. A small group of people will know that domains have something to do with corporate accounts and will choose not to explore this option out of the mistaken belief that the information it contains isn’t applicable to them. The phrase “Domain join instead” is incomprehensible to the majority of individual users setting up their PCs. Microsoft is using them to lock you into the kind of account it wants you to have. A number of web services use these sorts of tricks to lock you into subscribing to newsletters, signing up for more expensive services, or otherwise handing over data and personal information. They hide the truth in a deliberate way while preserving plausible deniability.
Credit: The Vergeĭark patterns are tricks. If you only read the top section, you’ll opt-in to the following section below it and receive information from third parties you did not wish to receive. The top section is opt-out, the following is opt-in. Whether because of legacy applications, corporate demands, or IT security requirements, it is apparently necessary for offline accounts to remain possible, but the company clearly doesn’t want them to be used.Ī classic dark pattern. The only point in play here is the fact that some users want local accounts and Microsoft very obviously does not want people to have local accounts. Those differences have absolutely nothing to do with how Microsoft is repeatedly sabotaging and changing the mechanism for selecting a local account as opposed to an online one. I am not going to bother going through the differences between an online, Microsoft-hosted account and a local account.
This is an ongoing blatant attempt to gaslight and annoy users into creating the account type that Microsoft prefers they use rather than the account type they might want. This is not a one-time change that Microsoft made. “Domain join instead” is now offered where “Create a Local Account” once sat, as Hot Hardware has covered.
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